Topic: Plains Heat

[mackbig]

The only grass fires I have ever seen around here are along rail lines.  Mostly caused by sparks from the trains brakes, or wheels.  Some caused by kids playing with matches/smoking.

With your temps and lack of precip, I would think there are lots of potential sources. 

Andrew

[cospringswx]

Temp went from 99 to 82 in about 15 min.

[Aardvark]

We went to Amana today for a short outing.  A pre-34th anniversary. In Des Moines, the top windspeed on my station was 21mph during yesterdays 0.79 inch in 30 min storm.   However, as we moved down US6 (the scenic route)  I noticed flattened fields of corn and beans, limbs down in farm yards and trees snapped off, one building gone mostly over the road, and some road signs tipped at a 45 or less degree angle.

I am told that as the storm built up and moved, the winds in that area were from 60 to 90 mph.

That seems to happen a lot out here, we'll have a hot humid day, then a storm pops up or moves through, all that atmospheric heating stirrs up the turbulence  and the more it moves through the area, the worse it gets.

Tomorrow promises some more of that.  I would rather have the rain than the drama.

[IMADreamer]

It almost rained here yesterday.  ha.   It thundered and carried on then nothing happened.  Hi still made it over 100 and we are still going to be over 100 the rest of the week.

[gwwilk]

I haven't seen a forecast this consistently bad here...ever that I can recall!

[Aardvark]

It almost rained here yesterday.  ha.   It thundered and carried on then nothing happened.  Hi still made it over 100 and we are still going to be over 100 the rest of the week.

kind of like a day without a bran muffin and a hot cup of coffee?

It is going to be similar all week.  The wife is going to take the granddaugter to the state capitol in this heat, for the Popcorn Pops concert and fireworks.   I am staying home, where it will be cool and watch the show on IPTV if I need fireworks.

[gwwilk]

I woke up to a 'Record High' for my station this morning.  In disbelief I checked the highs recorded in my WD data that goes back to 2008, and sure enough my temperature at midnight was higher than my previous 4^th of July highs for the past 5 years.

It's gonna be a hot one here today.

[Aardvark]

it is going to be hot the rest of this week and into next.  It is 84 now and going above 100 with record heat indexes.  the bad side is no rain insight.   That sucks.

[cospringswx]

Same thing here. Temps over 100 and no rain in sight.

[Bunty]

Chance of rain today at 50%.  TV weatherman on KFOR in OKC forecasts Stillwater getting only .2.  We need a lot more than that, since the heat is suppose to re-intensify next week.

Slight Risk of severe weather today for Central into Northeast Oklahoma.

...OK THROUGH MID MS VALLEY REGION...

OTHER STORMS WILL REDEVELOP AND INTENSIFY ALONG SWRN EXTENSION OF
FRONT AND PRE-FRONTAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM THE MID MS VALLEY INTO
NRN PARTS OF THE SRN PLAINS. MOST OF THIS REGION WILL REMAIN SOUTH
OF THE STRONGER FLOW ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH AMPLIFYING UPPER TROUGH.
HOWEVER...THE THERMODYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT WILL FAVOR A THREAT OF
ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND AND DOWNBURSTS WITH MULTICELL CONVECTION AS
LOW LEVEL LAPSE RATES STEEPEN ALONG THERMAL AXIS.

[Aardvark]

We picked up 0.53 inches ,  not enough to say it rained.   Most of the heavy weather was up North of us, maybe 50 miles .   We could use a 3 day , all day rain and still not have to worry.

It is dry..  Some places had wind gusts up to 60mph,  but here, we had only 17 .. not enough to blow a squirrel out of the pear tree

[cospringswx]

I recorded .02 last night. Just a few spits 

[cospringswx]

The City of Hays has issued a Water Watch. Hays is running out of water.

http://www.hdnews.net/Story/waterweb080612

[SLOweather]

The City of Hays has issued a Water Watch. Hays is running out of water.

Do you have a link??

[cospringswx]

The City of Hays has issued a Water Watch. Hays is running out of water.

Do you have a link??

http://www.hdnews.net/Story/waterweb080612

[Bunty]

The City of Hays has issued a Water Watch. Hays is running out of water.

http://www.hdnews.net/Story/waterweb080612

If Stillwater runs low on its water supply, then it's bound to mean much of the nation has a serious water problem.  Stillwater gets its water from a 39 mile long, 3 ft. wide pipeline from Kaw Lake, built in the Arkansas River.  The dam is 11,000 ft. long.  Much of the water comes from snowmelt in the Rockies.  Stillwater had rationed water before during the summer but not since the pipeline was built in the early 1980s.